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...jobs. I’ve copied, stamped, faxed, filed, called, stapled, collated, stuffed, sealed, slacked, typed and slept. I haven’t forgotten a cover sheet to a TPS report, but I have botched other relatively simple tasks. I’ve had to put up with a Milton-like character who may actually one day set the Russell Senate Office Building on fire if he doesn’t get his way. I’ve also made good friends, who, like Mike Bolton and Samir, have made the hours pass more easily...
Strangely, given his pursuit of ecstatic insight, he had no connection to the Romantic poets of his day, such as Coleridge and Wordsworth. But others he revered: John Milton, especially, whom he valued even above Dante. (He illustrated both.) Not only was Milton a republican and a sympathizer with regicides, but he also knew that the devil was beautiful, and so did Blake. Blake saw how insipid even Milton's descriptions of Paradise were compared with his visions of Hell, and pointed out that "the reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when...
...memory with the tragic vividness of Blake's watercolor of King Nebuchadnezzar, a taloned half-beast on all fours, glaring from the confines of his intolerable fate like an animal in a cage? Blake believed he had been appointed by supreme powers to render the most elevated scenes of Milton and the Bible in the language of Michelangelo and Raphael; in this he was wrong, but what an ambition...
...dining halls hang the faces of those men, and few women, who are our collective ancestors, who remind us that we have a duty to put our education from this august institution to good use. While many schools have abandoned requirements that students read the seminal works of Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth and other dead white males, Harvard requires one Shakespeare course and two pre-18th century classes of its English concentrators. The weekly Lowell House teas where students sip hot cider and tea and munch on scones, the formal dinners with professors and members of senior common rooms?...
...take it." They are serious. "Regis is an icon at the moment," says 16 editor Roberta Caploe. "Granted, he's somewhere out of the normal universe of people we cover, but he's accessible and very funny. We want girls to appreciate a sense of humor too." The Milton Berle centerfold ought to be something to behold...